Chapter 126: Beiwei Army Attack

When Wang Renze heard the news of Shan Xiongxin's suicide, the tent of Wang Renze was silent. Shantong Shan Xiongxin's bravery was obvious to all. No one present was dissatisfied with Shan Xiongxin. Wang Renze sat on the handsome chair and was speechless for a long time, as if he was like a statue. Wang Renze only smiled bitterly in his heart.

If Shan Xiongxin did not die, he could still put the responsibility for defeat on Shan Xiongxin and shirke his own responsibility. But now, Shan Xiongxin is dead. No matter how shameless he is, he will never put the responsibility for defeat on Shan Xiongxin.

However, if the loss is reduced and more than 15,000 troops are lost, someone will definitely blame him. Even if Wang Shichong can open his mind, how to defend Hangu Pass is still a very difficult problem.

When the generals had never seen Chen Ying, they thought Chen Ying was just fame and had good luck. After the battle at the northern plains of Hangu Road, they all saw Chen Ying's methods. Especially the iron man who could not be cut into the knife and could not be shot down by arrows, which made them feel extremely frustrated and desperate.

The enemy's armor was too thick and too strong, and no matter what method was used, they could not cause effective blows to them. But they were better off. The long sword in their hands would die if they touched it. Even after two days, when they recalled the horrifying scene, they still trembled unconsciously in their hearts.

The Tang army's cavalry lined up into dense cavalry walls, crushing them again and again, directly rushing their formation to pieces until the entire army collapsed, causing a long-lost sense of powerlessness in their hearts. From Wang Renze, all the generals were breathing heavily, not only depressed by this battle without any hope, but also nervous about their unknown fate.

At this moment, Cui Binyou mustered up the courage and said, "Ming Gong, the terrain on the southern plateau is flat. Now the Tang army is victorious. If we use the power of victory to attack us, we have to guard against us!"

Wang Renze looked strange in his expression, and he looked at Cui Binyou and the generals with playful thoughts: "What do you mean?"

Cui Binyou said: "Now that the Tang army is fighting for victory in the field, they will definitely attack Hangu Pass along Beiyuan. At that time, they will lead the war to the city of Hangu Pass, which will be the most passive situation. The best defense is actually the offense."

"Active attack? What kind of attack? How to attack? Where to attack? Wang Renze's voice was filled with fatigue and helplessness: "It's no point in ambushing the Tang army. Retreat the troops back to Hangu Pass. Let's rely on Hangu Pass to fight against the Tang army."

It is indeed meaningless. Originally, Wang Renze wanted to take advantage of the news that the Tang army did not know that they had sent troops, and make full use of the favorable terrain of Hangu Pass to ambush the Tang army, causing the Tang army to suffer a great loss. If Wang Renze's move was used against other Tang army soldiers, he might succeed.

However, he met Chen Ying, a freak. From beginning to end, Chen Ying did not expect to arrive directly at Hangu Pass from Hangu Road, but followed the high plateaus on both sides of Hangu Road and went straight to Hangu Pass. If it were the past, the Nanyuan and Chousang Plateau were covered with dense wild mulberry trees or shrubs, and there was no way to go to the top of the plateau. Chen Ying wanted to march from the top of the plateau, which was impossible to do. However, all the mulberry trees on the Nanyuan and Chousang Plateau were cut down by the people of Guanzhong, and the entire top of the plateau became bare, which completely failed Wang Renze's ambush plan.

The real field battle was exactly what the Tang army wanted. Now Wang Renze's heavy-armed tomahawk battalion has been wiped out, his troops were greatly reduced, and his equipment was at a disadvantage in the Tang army. Even if it was not even convenient for the Tang army, they needed to transport from Hangu Pass to a plateau of more than 100 miles, and the Tang army only needed to travel thirty or forty miles from Tong. The supply distance was shortened and the loss was light. It was inevitable to withdraw back to Hangu Pass.

"We cannot defend passively, we must take the initiative to attack!" Cui Binyou gestured on the map: "With the freezing of the Yellow River, we can bypass Tongguan along the river and attack Guanzhong directly."

Wang Renze smiled bitterly and said, "How many troops can we mobilize to attack Guanzhong? If the number of people is small, it will undoubtedly be a death sentence. If the number of people is too large, if the number of people is too large, if the Tang army is surrounded by all sides."

Choi Binyou was speechless for a moment.

At this moment, a messenger came hurriedly, and the messenger handed it to Wang Renze with a secret letter covered with a red seal.

Wang Renze did not receive this secret letter, but said directly: "I will not read it anymore. Tell me, what bad news is there?"

The messenger said: "The King of Qin Li Shimin of Tang State sent troops, Li Shimin of Tang State, Li Yuanji of Qi, and Qu Tutong, the Minister of War, led the left and right Wuhou Guards, the left and right cavalry guards, the left and right military guards, the left and right guards, the left and right guards, the left and right guards had a total of 100,000 elite troops, leaving Chang'an and coming eastward!"

Wang Renze was stunned, then took the secret letter, opened the secret letter, and looked carefully word by word. After a long time, Wang Renze sighed and said leisurely: "It seems that Zhongyuan is about to discover earth-shaking changes."

In fact, as Wang Shichong said, Li Tang originally planned to resolve Wang Shichong after spring plowing to avenge Wang Shichong's revenge for the attack on Li Tang Yinzhou. However, under the influence of Chen Ying, a butterfly in another world, the Li Tang court had a completely different concept of the war against Wang Shichong.

In Li Yuan's opinion, Wang Shichong's soldiers were nothing but Er'er.

Chen Ying wrote clearly in the battle report that Chen Ying encountered Wang Renze's ambush on the day of sending troops. He relied on the soldiers of the three armies to fight to the death, defeated Wang Renze, killed his general Guo Qing, captured his champion general Shan Xiongxin, Gao Feiyang, Zhang Anshi and more than 8,000 people.

This is not the result of normal field battles, but in the mid-despair. There are many examples of the 100,000 army being killed by only a few thousand ambushed soldiers. Chen Ying actually defeated the entire army with more than 23,000 troops, under the ambush of more than 30,000 elite soldiers by Wang Renze, not only killed the enemy, but also won a great victory. There was only one result. The so-called elite soldiers of the Zheng army were a group of slags who were not on the table.

Since Wang Shichong is so weak, there is nothing to be polite. If it goes well, Wang Shichong can be solved within two months and obtain the territory and nearly one million people of 12 counties and 107 counties in the Central Plains ruled by Wang Shichong. The Tang Dynasty would not delay the spring plowing of Wude for three years.

If the war goes well, you will obtain the Central Plains and go south along the Han River, and you will be able to attack Xiao Xian from Bashu and Li Jing from east to west to obtain the rich and fertile Hanxiang Plain. In that way, the Tang Dynasty will be no longer invincible and unification will be just around the corner.

On the third day of the first lunar month of the third year of Wude, before the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty opened office, Li Shimin took his Xuanjiao cavalry who had used Zhai Changsun's strategy and retrained it to lead a 100,000 army to advance towards Tongguan. Li Shimin believed that his Xuanjiao cavalry would not be weaker than Chen Ying's Dingyuan cavalry, and would definitely become the king of the cavalry in the world.

The left and right Wuhou Guards, the left and right cavalry guards, the left and right leading guards, the left and right eight guards, the left and right eighty-seven Zhechong soldiers, the army stretched for more than ten miles, with flags covering the sky and sun, and gongs and drums roaring. Li Shimin was very confident and was not afraid that Wang Shichong would hear the news in advance. His intention was to tell Wang Shichong: Yeah, I am coming to beat you, wash your neck and wait.

Since he received the news that Li Shimin's 100,000 troops had left Tongguan and rushed to Guanzhong, Wang Renze was unwilling to stay for a moment. Facing Chen Ying, he still had the power to resist, but he had no chance at all under Li Shimin's 100,000 elite troops. Wang Renze ordered a retreat, but he took it for granted.

The road to retreat is destined to be smooth sailing.

The snow-covered ice surface, the army was not moving fast. After walking for about forty miles, the whole army complained to the sky. Finally, Wang Renze's troops came to Taichu Palace. It is said that Lao Tzu rode a cow into Hangu Pass, wrote a book here, and wrote a masterpiece of the "Tao Te Ching".

The Taichu Palace covers an area of ​​about ten acres and is a temple-style building complex. There are rare birds and beasts such as unicorns, lions, tigers, chickens, dogs, etc. on the ridges and gables, with both spirit and shape. The roof of the hall is flying beams, and the rafters and purlins are unkempt. Although the roof structure is complex, it has its own rules. The temple is wide and there is no support column in it.

Wang Renze took over this Taoist temple without hesitation and placed the commander's tent in Taichu Palace, while his soldiers were stationed near Taichu Palace.

As the third day approached, dark clouds piled up in the sky. The night was so dark and so quiet. Since it was not far from Hangu Pass at this time, and there was no sign of Chen Ying's pursuit, the Zheng army was very relaxed. Except for some poor unlucky guys who were left outside the camp to act as sentinels in the cold wind, everyone fell asleep and slept soundly.

All the soldiers of Beiwei Army took off all the things that could make noise on their bodies. In order to prevent them from slipping accidentally, Liu Tong also ordered all the soldiers of the army to bite the small wooden stick.

Nowhere to be reached by an arrow from the Zheng army camp, the Zheng army sentries did not find any trace of the Beiwei Army. Liu Tongyao looked at the candlelight swaying in the Taichu Palace halfway up the mountain, and thought to himself: "It depends on this battle whether it is life or death."

Liu Tong took a deep breath and whispered to Xun Xiang beside him: "Did you see the bright hall there?"

Looking at the Zheng army camp, although there were lights in the Zheng army camp, they were arranged in a starry manner. The people who set up camp were obviously proficient in military tactics. Looking from outside, most of the camp tents in the camp were hidden in the darkness, making it impossible to see the virtuality and reality inside, so the brightly lit Taichu Palace located in the middle seemed very obvious.

Liu Tong said: "It is either where Wang Renze's commander's tent is, it is a trap, it is a top achievement, or it is a death..."

Xunxiang said, "I'll do it!"

Liu Tong raised his horizontal sword and slashed forward, shouting loudly: "Beiwei Army, attack!"

The thick and desolate Niuke suddenly rang out in the dark, and more than 1,200 soldiers of the four regiments of Beiwei Army immediately launched attacks from all directions outside the Taichu Palace.

More than 1,200 Beiwei Army members roared together. In the dark night, it sounded like a group of beasts roaring at night, which shocked countless Zheng army soldiers to turn into nightmares and suddenly woke up.

Most of the Zheng army soldiers were sleeping in their clothes and ran out in a mess. The soldiers were not in general and the generals could not find the soldiers. But there was no time at this time? The Tang army had already broken out of the camp. Of course, the most important thing was that the Zheng army soldiers were too tired. At this time, the weather was cold and it was not easy to cut wood. They did not even have a simple camp to guard against wild animals.

This made it more convenient for the Beiwei Army soldiers to rush in. The Beiwei Army soldiers from all directions were all trying to compete for the first prize of killing generals and seizing the flag, and rushed towards Taichu Palace. They burned the tents all the way, and stabbed the people when they saw them. They kept working and the soldiers kept moving. They had already washed the Zheng army camp into a sieve, and fires were everywhere in the camp.

Wang Renze's remnants at this time had more than 15,000 people, and the troops in this camp were thirteen times that of the Beiwei Army. However, most of them had no time to organize and accumulate. Only the thousand guards near Taichu Palace and more than 200 people in the west rotating army gathered together. The others were all in chaos, and many of them even hacked and killed them without even distinguishing their enemies and friends.

Xunxiang was originally the deputy general of Yuchi Gong, but now Yuchi Gong has been appointed as the left guard by Chen Ying, becoming one of the senior generals in the East Palace and one of the six leaders. His status is second only to Chen Ying, Xue Wanche, Li Shiji, Yang Wengan and Feng Li, and he has become the sixth general in the East Palace. Although he has also become a fourth-rank senior general, the gap with Yuchi Gong is getting further and further.

Xunxiang was also secretly anxious, but fortunately, Chen Ying was a very fair person. As long as he made a contribution, he would not worry that Chen Ying would be greedy for his contributions. Xunxiang led his troops into the Zheng army formation. These soldiers of Beiwei Army were selected by Chen Ying from the entire army's four-speed 180% leg of the warriors. Although they were not as powerful as Mo Daojun, they had the most sensitive physical coordination and reaction.

Seeing Xunxiang so brave, all the soldiers of Beiwei Army were desperate.

At this time, the Zheng army soldiers in the camp were like sitting on a small boat and storming in the stormy waves. There were soldiers in front, back, left and right, with enemies and me. The enemy and me were clearly distinguished in the bright fire, and the enemy and me were hard to distinguish in the dark fire. In the procession, people cannot correctly grasp the overall situation of the battlefield with their naked eyes, but must be judged by experience and intuition.

Wang Renze was experienced and could tell at a glance that although the Tang army shouted Liantian, they were short of troops. The one who caused the biggest casualties was not the Tang army soldiers, but their own people hacked and killed them randomly.

Wang Renze ordered angrily: "Those who dare to lie will kill you!"

"Those who dare to make noise will kill you!"

"Those who dare to invade the army will kill!"

In an emergency, Wang Renze issued a barbaric and bloody three-killing order, which controlled the chaotic situation in the barracks in a very short time. Liu Tongyi saw that the Zheng army soldiers gradually stabilized and knew that he had lost the opportunity to kill the general and seize the flag, so he could just order to retreat.

Finally, it was dawn, and there was smoke rising everywhere near the Taichu Palace Camp. Looking at the camp full of burned tents, ashes, and dense corpses, Wang Renze's face turned as black as coke.

"Have the statistics come out?"

"Report to the general, the result has come out. During the Tang army's attack on the camp last night, our army was killed, more than 3,000 injured, and more than 2,000 missing!"
Chapter completed!